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Quantcast File System (QFS) is an open-source distributed file system software package for large-scale MapReduce or other batch-processing workloads. It was designed as an alternative to the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), intended to deliver better performance and cost-efficiency for large-scale processing clusters. Wikipedia →

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The quantcast file system

Michael Ovsiannikov, Silvius Rus, Damian Reeves · 2013 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 150 citations
Comparing and Analyzing the Characteristics of Hadoop, Cassandra and Quantcast File Systems for Handling Big Data

Mohd Abdul Ahad, Ranjit Biswas, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Hamdard, (Hamdard University), New Delhi -110062, India · 2017 · Indian Journal of Science and Technology · 12 citations

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